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According to darkreading.com , a recent survey commissioned by CA Technologies has shown that there can be serious repercussions for companies that fall victim to data breaches. If the survey's conclusions are to be believed, about half of the organizations...

Last week, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that legislation may be one option for tackling the problem of "criminals going dark," a term that refers to law enforcement's inability to access suspects' data on encrypted devices. The...

It was reported this week that the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner – the person whose department is in charge of upholding the nation's data privacy laws – has penalized Yahoo! UK Services Limited with the amount of £250,000. The penalty...

Over a number of years, the FBI kept making the case for an encryption backdoor to smartphones. Of course, because "encryption backdoor" is a charged term, they said that they didn't need a backdoor per se , just a (secret) reliable way...

As many travellers may know, people at US borders are subject to an altered set of laws due to the fact that… well, a border is a border. This includes "pseudo-borders" like airports that may be located well within US soil. The most obvious...

Last week, Yahoo (now reborn as Altaba after Verizon's acquisition) announced a settlement with the SEC over misleading investors regarding the biggest data breach in known history. The crime: not revealing it in a timely manner. It was one of the...